BigTic Tour + Boat

Explore Berlin from all sides!

On two different city tours - YELLOW and PURPLE - a total of 30 stops are served on the hop-on-hop-off principle.
The stops are all very close to the main attractions. On the YELLOW city tour you will get to know the most important sights of Berlin from our double-decker convertible bus. The PURPLE route will take you to the exciting history of East Berlin and the WALL.

Tour describtion City Circle Yellow:

Starting from the Kurfürstendamm you pass the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, the Europa-Center and the KaDeWe luxury department store in the direction of Berlin's center. Via the Potsdamer Platz to the former border crossing at Checkpoint Charlie, Gendarmenmarkt to Alexanderplatz and the museum island with the Berlin Cathedral. On the Prachtstraße Unter den Linden it goes past the Brandenburg Gate and the Regierungsviertel over the 17th of June back in the direction of West. Finally, a short stop at Charlottenburg Palace before returning to the starting point - the Kurfürstendamm.

Tour describtion City Circle Purple:

From the Alexanderplatz square, walk through the Spandauer Vorstadt, the Jewish Quarter (Hackescher Markt and Oranienburger Straße), the Synagogue, the main railway station, the Hamburger Bahnhof, the former Berlin Wall, the Invalidenstraße border crossing, the Naturkundemuseum, The East Side Gallery of the Jewish Museum.

Tour description boat trip:

The navigation continues through the Reichstag and through the new government quarter to the "House of World Cultures", the Luther Bridge, Bellevue Palace, the "Schlangen", the Siegessäule, the Hauptbahnhof, the Berlin Cathedral, the Museumsinsel and the Nikolaiviertel.

2. With the Riedel shipping company from Berlin Central Station / stop 3 (Purple)

The boat trip passes the Reichstag and goes through the new government quarter to the "House of World Cultures", the Luther Bridge, Bellevue Palace, the "Schlangen", the Victory Column, the Central Station, the Berlin Cathedral, the Museum island and the Nikolaiviertel.

Special information about boat trip

The complete historical tour by boat takes about 1 hour.

The tour is explained by audio guide in 8 different languages.

Wheelchairs are allowed on the ships indicated in the timetable of Stern und Kreis Schiffahrt GmbH. A guarantee for the take-over is however only granted with advance booking. On all other ships, the ship crew decides.

It is allowed to carry so-called pet dogs (up to 5 kg).

Blind dogs as companion dogs can be carried along in general and free of charge